As the Apache Software Foundation holds its annual conference in San Diego this week, one of the hot topics under discussion is likely to be a new proposal known as Tuscany. Tuscany was approved as an Apache incubation last week. It is a project to bridge the gap between language-specific application component implementation technologies and higher-level SOA (service-oriented architecture) concepts and design approaches, the proposal for the project said. With ease of development a continual goal for enterprise developers, the Tuscany project sets out to simplify the composition of SOA-based systems through a set of frameworks and solutions.
Most of the committers to the Tuscany project are from IBM and BEA Systems Inc. Yet the Tusany proposal said the project is being run as a meritocracy because the scope of the project "is so broad that we find it hard to envision success in any other way."
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